The landscape of information science: The American Society for Information Science at 62

✍ Scribed by Buckland, Michael

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:11<970::aid-asi3>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

Founded in 1937 as the American Documentation Institute, the American Society for Information Science is 62 years old. Information Science includes two fundamentally different traditions: a "document" tradition concerned with signifying objects and their use; and a "computational" tradition of applying algorithmic, logical, mathematical, and mechanical techniques to information management. Both traditions have been deeply influenced by technological modernism: Technology, standards, systems, and efficiency enable progress. Both traditions are needed. Information Science is rooted in part in humanities and qualitative social sciences. The landscape of Information Science is complex. An ecumenical view is needed.